very rarely. the u.s. appears to be a step closer. despite . opposition fighters have resorted to using chemical weapons. and the top u.s. diplomat has arrived right here in russia. rather unlikely to. militarize zation of the conflict. shifts eastwards as a strange palestinian and israeli leaders rush to china's favor. rolling out the red carpet for. a million dollar deals for benjamin netanyahu. and election bloodshed in pakistan forces major candidates into the shadows they prefer to give up. on the campaign trail in favor of staying alive.

just approaching a day here in the russian capital with me will receive it's good to have you with us today. a bill allowing the united states to provide training to syrian rebel factions is now circulating among congress but the motion is based on allegations the leadership in damascus has resorted to chemical weapons in the country's long lasting civil war and that's despite u.n. claims it's the rebels who may have deployed illegal agents and not the government for the details now from correspondent in washington. washington is inching closer to arming the rebels this monday the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee introduced

a bill that would provide weapons to quote some varied groups of syrian rebels the bill would also give the u.s. government the power to sanction any individual who sells or transfers military equipment weapons or oil to the syrian government the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee also said the u.s. must act to tip the scales in favor of the opposition so we see washington trying to decide the outcome of the civil war in syria the idea or i mean the rebels has been floating in washington for a while now last week the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said the administration was rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels if the bill comes to the president's desk he may actually sign it into law critics in the meantime say flooding syria with more weapons could only lead to more bloodshed this monday the white house is basically brushed off the latest findings of the u.n. human rights commission wish that the syrian rebels may have used the deadly sarin nerve gas here is a leading u.n. investigators saying she was quote stupefied by the evidence chemical weapons were

used in particular. in what was. what appear on. to our investigation that was used by openings by the rebels and we have no no indication at toul the government authority of the syrian government has used chemical weapons but i was happy to be stupefied that. the first the first indication we got they were about the use of never been gassed by the opening to that the white house said we find it highly likely that chemical weapons if they were in fact used in syria and there certainly evidence that they were the our side we. simple end of quote so it seems that the white house is dismissive of evidence that could suggest the use of chemical weapons by the rebels by the way after this statement by the un human

rights investigator make headlines all over the world the commission issued a cautious press release saying it has not reached conclusive findings us through the use of chemical weapons in syria by any parties to the conflict it left many wondering whether the commission was trying to walk back on their own statements on their own findings due to the political sensitivity of the issue. ati's guy nature kind there in washington and joseph the national secretary of the u.s. socialist equality party he believes lawmakers from both sides are absolutely determined to push through the motion which would see the syrian rebels to the teeth within the political establishment here in the united states the democrats or republicans are basically united on. an escalation in their approach divided on how that may be carried out the particular pretext that may be employed but i think it's quite likely that they are going ahead with the allies of the united states in

syria on the so-called rebels including you know islamic fundamentalist organizations aligned with al-qaeda and of course the united states as well that you know they officially have criticized the some of these forces the islamic fundamentalists in syria have in fact been arming them through their allies through the arabia and qatar have been funneling weapons to these organizations as part of their effort to unseat the assad government this is under conditions in which you have these revelations from the united nations that the central pretext upon which they're basing this collision was the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government and then really exploded. meanwhile tension is escalating on syria's western border after israeli warplanes bombed targets inside the war torn state just last week damascus has reportedly given the go ahead for palestinian groups to

carry out anti israeli operations in the golden heights and missile batteries are also said to have been deployed in the region ready for imminent retaliation in the case in the event of a new israeli strike a media report suggests special syrian lebanese units have been created to fight israeli aggression in the area author and historian gerald horne he believes the israeli attacks to place the entire region on the brink of war their calculation is that true more oil they have unleashed in syria ultimately we can palestinian resistance of one of the fact that damascus has been a prime supporter of palestinian resistance and allowing attacks on to israeli tourists story from the golan heights is a small price to pay in that context i'm afraid that we are on the threshold of a regional war keep in mind that hezbollah laws leadership announced just a few days ago that they would not allow the regime to fall in damascus keep in

mind as well that both hezbollah and the iranians have issued gurrey strong warnings to the rebels not to desecrate shia shrines in syria and apparently that is what has happened in the last forty eight to seventy two hours i think that there is a diabolical plot to stoke sectarian conflict as a cover for destabilizing syria then moving on to try to destroy hezbollah law and weaken the islamic republic of iran. now the latest leap of violence in syria comes as the top u.s. diplomat has arrived here to the russian capital with moscow and washington deeply polarized on any peace plan for the syrian standoff but the mission of secretary john kerry may become even more challenging. to shift as more. u.s. state secretary john kerry is in moscow to seek russia's support in resolving the syrian conflict but experts are added dismay as to exactly how he is going to get that support given that the positions of moscow and washington on the syrian

conflict have been fundamentally different just twenty four hours before john kerry landed in moscow or the spokesperson on the russian foreign ministry alexander said that russia has been concerned with the militarization of the syrian rebels by the western countries the u.s. have been expressing their regret all along that the syrian conflict has been going on for more than two years now with so many people dead at the same time the initiatives are which are now existing in washington wolf arming the syrian rebels and providing them with military training are creating something of a double standard situation in other particular point which will be discussed is the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government troops this is something of course russia is concerned yet again because from the russian standpoint it looks like the fact of the chemical weapons use it was not approved and it may be used as a pretext for a possible use of force in syria by the western forces by the u.s. in particular even despite that the investigation by the independent u.n.

commission to just that that the chemical weapons were in fact used by the syrian rebels this report is being ignored and this is causing serious concerns also the latest reports of israeli strikes into the syrian territory are creating tensions as well especially given the fact that israel does not want to comment on exactly why it's performing strikes into the syrian territory and off course they are also expecting that john kerry will be discussing this with and lavrov will certainly deliver russia's stance on that on that issue to his u.s. counterpart. and at the same time israel is waging another offensive for though this time a charm offensive in china or prime minister binyamin netanyahu is likely to secure a massive trade deals also looking to convince the asian giant to cool its multibillion dollar relations with iran but political favor is vested fully with israel's arch rival that of palestine its leader mahmoud abbas was given full state

honors and china's support as you visited just a day before a meeting in the capital president is reaching ping went to offer a four point peace plan calling for an end to the guards a blockade in the restoration of palestinian rights. are now reports on the rush to the east the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas are currently in china they are there on a week long business trip but obviously they won't just be talking business they'll be talking politics and they'll be trying to further cooperate and intrenched relations in the fields of economy trade and science and also develop political trust for some time we have witnessed how china is trying to influence the middle east and play a bigger role in this part of the world if you look at israeli chinese relations in one thousand nine hundred two the two countries began and established diplomatic relations and since then they have developed increasingly close commercial military

and strategic links trade between the two countries currently stands at around ten billion dollars a year their investments in israel are at the beginning or i believe they have a number of reasons why the very slow by they don't invest in this room. i think this think also in large political terms they think is really simple come through they want to have a phone call to your. own from the. china has always supported the arab side of the conflict at least. if you notice that in the last in the recent polls they have recovered maybe a little bit more her support. and maybe they want to get something back from the arab side what is particularly interesting when we look at the relationship between israel and china is that it seems to be coming on the back of a cooling of the relationship between israel and the united states there's no

secret that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the american president barack obama do not like each other and obviously netanyahu is going to look around and search for new partners one of whom could easily become china if you take note of how china is getting more and more powerful of how the world is becoming more multi-polar when it is clear that there is no room for ignoring a world power such as china if you look at the euro crisis where did countries go in terms of asking for help china if you look at the north korea crisis where the countries go they are china for help and now netanyahu is in china at a particularly sensitive time in terms of israeli syrian relations many people are asking why he did not cancel his trip to go there and in fact what role the recent syrian israeli flare up will have in terms of the agenda that is being addressed there china has always had a firm position toward syria and it has always been on the side of negotiations

never did it support the bloodshed from either side of the conflict so it will be interesting to see what comes out of if anything israeli chinese discussions over the situation in syria. and while israel is under no illusion that it can persuade beijing to abandon palestine's cause there are plenty of other opportunities for it that's according to professor steve sang at the director of the china policy institute at the university of nottingham. we can't have any illusion he would all be able to persuade all that all see that all if this is what the chinese government to sap will be swayed a lot. just to watch. the china big easy in homs.

cations that this is. the whole state. to china they have nothing. the chinese side. that china is. no you. china has been so good to put the whole decades. become the guantanamo bay the hunger strike drags on into its ninety five day still coming up here on the program we hear from lawyers for the inmates about the failing health of the prisoners and why their clients feel they have no choice but to put their very lives on the line. peddling influence a new form of tourism is lifting the veil on how industry gets its way with government can find out how business pushes his agenda in just a couple of minutes. we

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fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. live from moscow this is our. state of pakistan now where the election violence is actually forcing major candidates to give up life on the campaign trail just to survive the voting period and they say that being on the taliban's hit list doesn't exactly encourage actively pursuing votes since april eighty seven people have fallen victim to the taliban's bombings mainly targeting the rallies of parties opposed to the movement the latest blast on monday killed some eighteen demonstrators less than a week before the vote and geoffrey a senior fellow with the century foundation on international affairs he believes

the ballot was rigged far before it even got off the ground. the secular parties for the moderate are used to losing their traditional share of the vote their candidates have been hit hard by many of these attacks and it is believed that it is intimidating the awami national party's candidates their average are holding their horns and go only to the safest places and that makes it harder to reach out to the kind of hands on very tactile. no contact with voters that tends to get you elected in and a place like pakistan well the most interesting thing about the attack is that it is directed by the steady i guess one of the most vociferously pro islamised artes which might suggest the revolution is so eating its own but the taliban have justified this attack on those who had to be out by. rally

because the particular candidate had once upon a time been a lot with general musharraf who was of course by the end a bitter enemy of the taleban and. arguably helped incite. a former german finance minister and key figure behind the introduction of the euro speaks out he says the currency is leading the continent into disaster and he's calling for the euro to be ditched before germany's dragged into the economic doldrums find out the details of r.t. dot com. same faces same place different time thousands gather in a key protest square for the russian opposition there marking a year since violent clashes between police and the antigovernment movement all the details online for you right now.

twelve twenty pm here in moscow it is day ninety one of the guantanamo bay hunger strike and now more than one hundred inmates refusing food or in protest of their treatment at the hands of the u.s. military a two dozen of being force fed a procedure that lawyers have described as plain brutal david remes who represents some seventeen guantanamo bay inmates seat told us of their motivation and what it's costing them. of the two are being force that have energy and focus as you would imagine the others who are hunger striking are weak find it difficult to focus they can manage but it's difficult they all of them have lost a considerable amount of weight twenty forty five pounds and sixty pounds and it's really a horrifying situation they shouldn't have to do this to get and kind of the american

public and they shouldn't have to do this in order to cry out for the release of the commander of the joint detention group he's effectively the warden of the. prison for the detainees and has refused to talk to them until they stop their hunger strike i have to say that it's sort of a macho pose on his part so he's just not going to land first he could have saw all his hunger strike within three or four days if he had sat down with the men talked with them about their concerns and found a pragmatic solution that's what his practice that's true yet after three months he has not been willing to discuss the matter after all this rate i'm afraid that some men may dodge it because the military just isn't paying attention what it's trying to do is break the hunger strike by any means possible however little.

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to explain how business is. on the streets of berlin there's a new form of tourism grabbing attention sightseeing tours that show just how the political lobbying process works. everyone gather around their big green i just want to make sure everyone can hear within a couple of kilometers we take in how an issue goes from the desk of the lobby organization to the ear of a politician and its opening. i didn't know how powerful wow the industry is it's interesting to see how they go about pushing their agenda but why are these people giving up their saturday afternoon to traipse around closed office buildings it's a topic that you don't get much information on. easily and i thought also think it's a topic that's very abstract but we manage to. make it more concrete we give

a lot of concrete examples on the door and we go to where the lobbyists are and i think that's what makes it attractive to take the tour and you going to see where germany's auto giants make their presence felt and how they made sure the country's highways famously have no speed limits and since this is germany of course the beer industry also has a say. brewery lobby were facing a drop off in sales so this is where they lobbied to be allowed to lemonade tasting better to attract a younger crowd of. people with money have more of a say in politics than the normal man in the street was what i'm seeing is that political decisions are made by the rich one of the most interesting parts of the tour is getting to see where the closed door meetings take place and highly selective private clubs these are clips. we don't know these discussions take place this tour like to see just where they happen i had no idea that there was such a place as the china club but right here in the political center of the city the

popularity of tours like the one we've just seen shows that more and more germans. i want to find out exactly who's pulling the strings behind some of the major decisions that get taken in parliament peter all of a. and we've got a much more on just how business is a mass profits on this week's kaiser report that's coming up now in about an hour and six minutes. but now nick with the dreadlocks he encounters the shortcomings of the martin system which is that he can only do one or two throws of the dice then he's bust he is bankrupt he goes completely without any money if you are working at j.p. morgan you continued to do this exact same bet using the house money using our money using the the federal reserve the social banks money it's all they made a profit that's the acute difference between the insiders who are raping the system and everybody else. into biase was

also we go starting with a friend of one of the boston marathon bombing suspects who's accused of lying to be f.b.i. has now been released on bail one thousand year old rebel of philip orse will have to wear a special electronic tracking tag and be confined to his home u.s. authorities accuse him and two other teenagers of trying to hinder the investigation into the bombings that killed three. a u.s. official has said north korea has removed two medium range missiles from its launch pads easing tensions on the peninsula pyongyang has repeatedly been threatening to hit south korea japan and america's regional bases its warnings that come after a new round of washington backed sanctions imposed on north korea by the united nations. police in the united states have found three women who disappeared around ten years ago after one of them managed to escape from a house in cleveland and raise the alarm the trio are now recovering in hospital though their conditions are described as fair one is said to have

a baby and three brothers all in their fifty's have been arrested the girls were aged between fourteen and twenty when they mysteriously vanished and the families believe they were either dead or been sold into slavery. well i just i'm i would hear it on t.v. we go beyond the mainstream financial headlines in prime interest the new program in just a second. and yet another step along the pointless anti gender crusade activists in sweden are pushing to promote a new gender neutral pronoun these activists want the term hen to replace the pronouns han and haun which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u. is that they really feel that it's awful to force someone into a role that doesn't fit them you know i can kind of see this i remember back to

when i was a boy in school and with me there was a kid what kind of only female friends and i certainly wasn't the sports a toy trucks kind of kid if you understand what i mean you know i could see this guy having all those male stereotypes shoved down his throat you know made his life at school really unpleasant but the whacko liberal answer to some tiny amount of people being pushed into gender roles they don't like is to force everyone else into a genderless world they don't like fantastic i guess gender neutrality advocates can speak swedish how they like and they're free to use this word hen but don't force everyone in the country to do things your way the overwhelming majority of the world is very happy with its gender thank you very much but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are

is a big check. good afternoon to welcome to prime interest i'm kerry and boring here and a washington d.c. and here's the headlines that we're tracking today. when it comes to currency devaluation the words of a central banker or gold or tungsten rather this morning the head of the european central bank mario draghi said there are things historic rate cut to happen percent was just the beginning of the euro fell sharply and speaking of market plunges today of the three year anniversary of the flash crash the day of and for me when high frequency trading algorithms gummed up the works at the new york stock exchange and a single day the dow crashed into the red by one thousand points we'll talk about the reading of social security later with roy. also jamie diamond displacing head

wins a shareholder advisory firm has suggested that he be stripped from his role as the chairman of the j.p. morgan board the bank is facing a slew of regulatory investigations everything from failing to detect bernie made off suspicious trading to bilking states for millions in extra energy fees the bankers residents walk experts of like the masters is also under fire masters who is most famous for inventing credit default swaps is accused of lying under oath to regulators about this energy scheme one of j.p. morgan's most famous investors buffett isn't discouraged he says he's one hundred percent for jamie we'll see how mr dimon holds up in our bankers come do what the bottom of the show. and the annual shareholders meeting for berkshire hathaway buffett promise burning are he praised bernanke calling four and a half years of near zero interest rates and two trillion dollars in bond purchases smart policy.